Quirky observations about Life in Japan, Canada and the world at large.

2010-05-28

Samurai Sith!

As others have pointed out before, Darth Vader's helmet has a very Samurai-ish feel to it. For example, the venerable Star Wars website had a complete article on it a few years back.

Check out this article on Darth about the man behind the mask which also has a letter printed by fellow Empire blogger, John Rozum. Here's a peek at a more David Prowse-ian head behind this spinning head thingamajig.

Let's match his helmet with some actual Samurai throughout Japanese history. Hmmm. Let's see, I have a couple of Kurosawa's 7 Samurai, but they're not even wearing helmets.

Oh darn, neither are these half a dirty dozen.

Nor is this guy...

Okay, we're getting closer...

Let's doublecheck a few of the Darth pillows I own. Nope, not quite.

Well what do ya know. Sendai's own 伊達 政宗 (Date Masamune) has a similar headpiece, if you take off the banana, substitute a masked inhaler for an eyepatch and we may have ourselves a winner!

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I was born a young white child. After almost 20 years of depressing social work, dealing with all manners of society's dregs, I decided to chuck it all and move to Japan and teach English. Now I'm a happy camper teaching Elementary School kids in Watari, Miyagi.